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How deals are trumping port dispute on Australian PM Albanese’s China visit
Source says the two sides have decided to step back from Darwin Port controversy amid trade tensions with US.
20 July 2025
An open letter from the presidents of Gaza universities
Our campuses may have been razed, but our universities continue to exist.
20 July 2025
Environment: Forget 1.5 degrees C, even 2 degrees C, while forests and peat disappear and natural gas booms
Peatlands are vital for human survival, but we are destroying the few that are left. Australia’s gas industry facing a volatile future. Chinese banks funding the destruction of tropical forests – not good for humans or tigers.
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20 July 2025
Military operations seen through Gauguin, the Colosseum and responsibility
Public policy in general, and the military operations given the titles Swords of Iron, Gideon’s Chariots (by Israel) and Midnight Hammer (by the Pentagon), more specifically, need to be understood in terms that transcend the purely strategic and which can be dismissed only at the risk of condoning barbarism.
20 July 2025
The world governed from the Black House
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19 July 2025
Time for Foreign Minister Wong to put her foot down
In an ideal world, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) should be the government’s principal agency in seeing that relations with other countries best serve Australia’s interests.
19 July 2025
The collapse of civilisation
Days after turning 100, former Malaysian prime minister Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad posted his reflections on the state of the world.
19 July 2025
Trump makes tariffs example of Korea, Japan – Asian Media Report
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19 July 2025
Common interests the basis for stronger China-Australia relations
Neither a port controversy nor any third-party interference cast a shadow over the trade and business focus of Albanese’s trip to China.
19 July 2025
12 years on, are we not yet tired of cruel policies towards asylum-seekers?
In Australia, 2025, Progressive Patriotism is now, apparently, our political modus operandi and, as Anthony Albanese ambitiously explained, it can be “a symbol for the globe in how humanity can move forward”.
19 July 2025
Tasmania’s snap election 2025: How did we get here and where are we going?
Tasmanians are going to the polls on 19 July as the result of a snap election more than two years early.
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20 July 2025
An open letter from the presidents of Gaza universities
Our campuses may have been razed, but our universities continue to exist.
19 July 2025
Antisemitism, free speech and a dangerous redefinition: How one envoy is rewriting the rules
The recent synagogue fire in Melbourne is being used as a blueprint for sweeping changes to Australian law.
19 July 2025
Israel's final Gaza solution
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18 July 2025
Despite denials, Australia has exported F-35 parts to Israel
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17 July 2025
An ambitious plan to combat antisemitism or an effective plan to silence Israel's critics?
I watched the 7.30 interview with the special envoy to combat antisemitism, Jillian Segal, with mounting alarm. By the end of the interview, I was afraid for the future of Australia.
17 July 2025
Israeli settlers kill, destroy and steal with impunity
This week there was another attack on a religious institution. No, not in Australia but in the ancient Christian village of Taibeh, a Palestinian village in the Occupied West Bank.
16 July 2025
The Israel lobby stands loudly condemned for its silence
Reflect for a moment, as you read this piece, what is happening in Gaza.
16 July 2025
Systematic bias: how Western media reproduces the Israeli narrative
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Israel's war against Gaza
Media coverage of the war in Gaza since October 2023 has spread a series of lies propagated by Israel and the United States. This publication presents information, analysis, clarification, views and perspectives largely unavailable in mainstream media in Australia and elsewhere.
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20 July 2025
How deals are trumping port dispute on Australian PM Albanese’s China visit
Source says the two sides have decided to step back from Darwin Port controversy amid trade tensions with US.
19 July 2025
Common interests the basis for stronger China-Australia relations
Neither a port controversy nor any third-party interference cast a shadow over the trade and business focus of Albanese’s trip to China.
18 July 2025
Round up the usual Chinese suspects
It’s a big week for headlines – and an even bigger week for fear. With Prime Minister Albanese landing in China, our media wasted no time rounding up their usual suspects.
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